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Ursula 1000: Eclectic DJ
Alex Gimeno, aka Ursula 1000, is truly inspirational. He's had much success releasing albums on ESL, the same label as Thievery Corporation. He is a super talented producer and his musical style is so fun and eclectic, as well as different from one album to another. Alex was super open about everything I asked, and was sweet enough to have me over his hip Brooklyn apt to chat about DJing, producing, and the misconceptions of dance music. Alex Gimeno, aka Ursula 1000, is truly inspirational. He's had much success releasing albums on ESL, the same label as Thievery Corpor... more
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Christian Martin "Sweaty Sundays" mix
An edited version of "Sweaty Sundays" and my 1st attempt every using AE, (I'm teaching myself the program, in 1 day, this is what I created) An edited version of "Sweaty Sundays" and my 1st attempt every using AE, (I'm teaching myself the program, in 1 day, this is what I cr... more
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Prima e Dopo Il Millepiedi: Urban Zen Episodio 007/008
Prima e Dopo + Il Millepiedi
www.youtube.com/xxxurbanzenxxx
Prima e dopo
"Prima di praticare per trent'anni lo Zen vedevo le montagne come montagne e le acque come acque.
Quando giunsi a una sapienza più profonda, vidi che le montagne non sono montagne e le acque non sono acque.
Ora che ho raggiunto l'essenza della sapienza, sono in pace, perché vedo le montagne come montagne e le acque come acque."
(Ch'ing-yuan)
Commento: Per alcune tradizioni, la ricerca della verità deve portare alle rivelazioni di misteri sublimi o di visioni soprannaturali. San Paolo scrive per esempio di aver udito "gemiti inesprimibili" e "parole indicibili, che non è possibile ad alcun uomo riferire." Ma, secondo lo Zen, la "rivelazione" è un modo nuovo di vedere la vita di tutti i giorni. Scopo della meditazione non è far provare esperienze soprannaturali, ma far riscoprire le meraviglie del naturale.
Il millepiedi
Un millepiedi viveva sereno e tranquillo. Finché un rospo un giorno non disse per scherzo:
"In che ordine metti i piedi l'uno dietro l'altro?"
Il millepiedi incominciò a lambicarsi il cervello e a fare innumerevoli prove.
Il risultato fu che da quel momento non riuscì più a muoversi.
Commento: Questo succede quando si cerca di sostituire i movimenti e le azioni naturali con altre studiate dalla mente. Chi riuscirebbe, per esempio, a dirigere volontariamente tutto ciò che compie il nostro corpo: far funzionare nello stesso tempo i muscoli, il cervello, gli organi, il metabolismo, la respirazione, il sistema immunitario e cosi via?
Ci sono azioni che devono essere lasciate alla natura, perché essa ha impiegato milioni di anni per arrivare a organizzare e a coordinare il tutto. Quando manchiamo di saggezza e pretendiamo di sostituirci in ogni cosa alla natura, non possiamo che finire come il millepiedi dell'aneddoto.
In meditazione ci si affida alla (propria) natura, che è parte di quella generale, e si cerca di lasciare il maggior spazio possibile alla propria spontaneità.
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Demo Reel 2008
1. A Chard of Noir
Director/Editor: Tiffany Shanel
2. "Work the Walls"
Dj Worthy, Katabatic Records
Directors/Producers: Tiffany Shanel & Annie Sloan
Editor: Tiffany Shanel
3. 1st Date
Director: Shohei Kajiwara
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World of Synth
How would you go about building a synthesizer? Nick Collier shows us his passion for creating his own sound machines made of slinkies.
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Music video for "First Love" from Boy In Static.
Music video "First Love" by Boy In Static. Directed by House of Yes (houseofyes.tv). From the album Violet on Mush Records. www.mushrecords.com Music video "First Love" by Boy In Static. Directed by House of Yes (houseofyes.tv). From the album Violet on Mush Records. www.mushre... more
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PARTY IN MY BODY
Funky, Fun and insightful profile on Multi-Instrumentalist, DJ / Producer Robert Strauss. Toronto come UK music producer who has now become internationally revered for his against the grain feel-good take on the modern 'Urban' music scene...
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www.robertstrauss.com
www.myspace.com/robertstrauss Funky, Fun and insightful profile on Multi-Instrumentalist, DJ / Producer Robert Strauss. Toronto come UK music producer who has now b... more -
Dirtybird 2 year Anniversary @ Shine in SF
Christian Martin and Worthy doing what they do best: Keeping the dancers dancing...1-25-08
(and yes, i'm aware, special is spelled wrong, can't fix it now = ( Christian Martin and Worthy doing what they do best: Keeping the dancers dancing...1-25-08 ... more -
Worthy - "Work the Walls" Official Music Video
a fresh, fun, funky music video I got to direct with Annie Sloan
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Comcast gets Caught! Interfering with legal peer-to-peer technology
Sign the petition; http://savetheinternet.com/
The Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School was full past capacity Monday morning. So many people had showed up to attend the Federal Communications Commission's hearing on network neutrality that burly campus cops were posted outside the door, turning dozens of people away.
I hung around for a while nonetheless, eventually making my way to another entrance. Peeking into the packed auditorium, I noticed that several people in the front row were sleeping.
This made no sense. The proceedings had just started. On an issue that has so clearly struck a chord with the public, why would anyone that engaged show up early, score a primo seat, and promptly doze off?
We may have an answer. According to savetheinternet.com, a site maintained by a coalition of net-neutrality activists, Comcast "bused in its own crowd. These seat-warmers were apparently paid to fill the room and keep the public out. They arrived en masse some 90 minutes before the hearing began and occupied almost every available seat. . . . One told us that he was 'just getting paid to hold someone's seat.' He added that he had no idea what the meeting was about."
Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas admits that "just like what happens at a lot of hearings in Washington," there were people paid to stand in line "to hold seats for a couple of the people we knew would be coming" with Comcast executive vice president David L. Cohen. But "everyone knows that this was well-advertised and open to the public. . . . I don't know who might have been sleeping, but we told our employees about the hearing because obviously they have a strong interest in what was discussed there."
So did I. But I was left with little choice but to head home and — thanks to my Comcast high-speed Internet connection — listen to the hearing via streaming Webcast. I got to my apartment just in time to hear Marvin Ammori, general counsel for media reform group Free Press, charge that Comcast was "deliberately targeting and interfering with legal peer-to-peer technology" by blocking BitTorrent software on its network.
Why? Because new-media platforms such as Vuze, which distributes hi-def content via BitTorrent, or Miro, the torrent-based video portal launched by Worcester's Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), "pose an emerging threat to companies like Comcast, [threatening] their video-on-demand, online video services, and ultimately their cable TV services," Ammori alleged.
Comcast's Cohen — occasionally drawing cheers from sections of the audience — countered by insisting that "reasonable network management practices are essential to promoting broadband deployment." All Comcast users can download video from Vuze, BitTorrent, eDonkey, or any other application, he insisted.
But, pointing out that "bandwidth consumption is a real concern across the Internet," he admitted that "it's true, to maximize our customers' Internet experience, we do manage our network. One tool that we use manages certain p2p uploads at certain times. We do this in a very limited manner, designed to have a minimal, virtually imperceptible effect on a small number of users."
Yes, says PCF's Dean Jansen, "certain types of network management are necessary." But "there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it." Comcast's technique — essentially impersonating the host at the end of a BitTorrent transaction and terminating the connection — would seem to be the latter. "One of the [panelists] from MIT said that basically Comcast is using hacker techniques."
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How we can Save the Internet
Sign the Petition: http://savetheinternet.com/
Will the internet in the United States become, in the words of AT&T (SBC) CEO, their company's private "pipes"? Or will it remain, as the Supreme Court cited in 1997, "the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed"? These two very different perspectives reflect what's at stake in the growing fight now in Congress over the internet's future.
A growing movement of online users, public advocates, internet "visionaries," bloggers, and online corporations are fighting to have Congress enact what are called "network neutrality" safeguards. Such rules would preserve the internet's essential democratic structure: All content would be required to flow into our PCs and digital devices in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner. Network neutrality would help ensure that internet serves the interests of diversity of speech. As the new Savetheinternet coalition put it, network neutrality is the equivalent of the internet's First Amendment.
But an unfettered open road is directly at odds with the broadband business plans of AT&T (formerly SBC), Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon. The cable and telephone industry see enormous revenues as operators of a private internet toll-road. How has the internet -- so diverse and unwieldly -- fallen into their hands? The answer is (of course) the Bush administration. Heavily lobbied by the cable and phone giants, the Bush Federal Communications Commission has been eliminating the rules that required the internet to operate in a nondiscriminatory manner.
Under the "old" policy governing what's called the "dial-up" internet, the public was guaranteed that their internet service provider (ISP) had to treat all online content in an unbiased manner. ISPs couldn't, for example, speed up the email or websites they liked, or decide to slow down content it didn't like (such as from a peace group). The former rules also permitted the public to choose from literally thousands of ISPs to connect them to the internet. Such federal safeguards have, sadly, now bitten the digital dust.
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DJ4Life v.2 (remix)
We had so much good stuff we had to do it again. Thanks to SOMA Magazine, DJ4Life Academy, TallSasha, and the Supperclub for supporting and promoting emerging artist. We had so much good stuff we had to do it again. Thanks to SOMA Magazine, DJ4Life Academy, TallSasha, and the Supperclub for supportin... more
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Suit Yourself Magazine episode 29 podcast
Suit Yourself Magazine episode 29 podcast.
Features on 'VJing' with the Frame Butchers. Plus we go to 'Go Ape'
Music by Fred moTh and Ben One
suityourselfmagazine.co.uk
video produced & edited by Paul Stevenson
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Worthy - "Work the Walls" Official Music Video
www.katabaticrecords.com
www.myspace.com/djworthy
Credits:
Artist/Executive Producer
Worthy
Director/Editor/Producer
Tiffany Shanel
Creative Director/Director/Producer
Annie Sloan
Director of Photography
Ben Lunden
Gaffer
Ryan Hildebrant
Camera Operator
Michael Lutman
Dancers (In Order of Appearance)
Jen, Joyce, Nicola, Candice
Art Department:
Chrystie Cappeli,Daniel Figueroa
Stylist:
Vanessa Salazar
Production Assistants
Gerene Latesh Polk, Levy Salazar
A special thanks to:
Alex Sandulevsky, Phil Dodge, Pete & Kim Gronquist, Yumi Takeuchi
Food donated by
Twin Peaks Pizza
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Girl Talk Interview
Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk sits down with the Daily Fix to dish out the details on his new album and discuss the unexpected reactions to his music. Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk sits down with the Daily Fix to dish out the details on his new album and discuss the unexpected reactions t... more
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Ask Dizzee Rascal
Tomorrow, May 22nd, is not only the last day of Dizzee Rascal's North America tour, he will also be in our LA studios with the folks from the Fix answering some of your questions.
If you thought Maths+English was the most brilliant piece of British hip-hop, and you're itching to learn more about the mastermind behind the magic, all you have to do is leave us a text or video comment below!
We will select the very best questions and ask them in our interview session tomorrow.
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CODE MEDIA GROUP: DJ4 LIFE~ Learn DJ skills for a career or a hobby, but always--f...
DJ4Life
At San Francisco’s DJ4Life, you will learn the fundamental skills of first-class dee-jaying. From elementary record or CD spinning to the complexities of scratching, hot-mixing, and beat-matching, DJ4Life will teach you the inimitable art of creating an a sound experience--perfectly timed, beautifully balanced, and ultimately unforgettable.
DJ4Life is the ONLY DJ school where you will have not just one—but three opportunities to perform in front of LIVE AUDIENCE AT A REAL CLUB!
Contact DJ4Life today to learn more.
Call 415/215.1108 or email: sasha@dj4life.org
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Daedelus - Just Briefly
"Just Briefly" by Daedelus. Directed by Chroma*Fresh. From the album Exquisite Corpse on Mush Records. www.mushrecords.com
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4 Bonjour's Parties - Satellite
"Satellite" by 4 Bonjour's Parties. Directed by Takayuki Kozyma. From the album Pigments Drift Down To The Brook on Mush Records. www.mushrecords.com (more) "Satellite" by 4 Bonjour's Parties. Directed by Takayuki Kozyma. From the album Pigments Drift Down To The Brook on Mush Records. www.... more
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COMPLETED: Ask Walter Meego anything you want
Walter Meego will be on Current this Monday and you can ask them whatever you want. Extra points for webcam/video questions!
NOTE: Thanks for all of your great questions! Walter Meego have already been in and we'll post their answers to some of your questions as soon as their music clears. Thanks everyone for participating!
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